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Events · Makhachev vs Machado Garry · Ian Machado Garry vs Islam Makhachev
Red corner Ian MachadoGarry
VSSettled
Blue corner IslamMakhachevMakhachkala, Dagestan
Welterweight5 rounds15 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 16-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 17 UFC wins.
17-2
Record
29-1
−6 yr28
Age
34
+5″6' 3"
Height
5' 10"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
11
UFC bouts
+718
3/1030% of wins
Finishes
+35%11/1765% of wins
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Islam Makhachev
68.2% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 53%
Vs the market−6.1pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Islam Makhachev
WIN
How it endedU-DEC
Round5 of 5
Clock5:00
Called it We called Islam Makhachev at 68.2% and Islam Makhachev won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ian Machado Garry0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

Islam Makhachev3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%2 of 2
0 of 2
Sig.
strikes
3 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
3:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Garry firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Makhachev
Ian Machado Garry6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 11BODY67%4 of 4LEGS17%1 of 3
Islam Makhachev11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 15BODY18%2 of 2LEGS27%3 of 3
6 of 18
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:17
Control
2:19
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garry firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Ian Machado Garry9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 18BODY33%3 of 4LEGS33%3 of 3
Islam Makhachev5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 6BODY20%1 of 1LEGS60%3 of 3
9 of 25
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:05
Control
0:16
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garry firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Ian Machado Garry7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 5BODY71%5 of 5LEGS14%1 of 1
Islam Makhachev3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%2 of 2
7 of 11
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:12
Control
3:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garry firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ian Machado Garry7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 4BODY57%4 of 4LEGS14%1 of 1
Islam Makhachev0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:12
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garry firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Ian Machado GarryIslam Makhachev
Official totals — Ian Machado Garry first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–49
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide47–48
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 21 scored, Ian Machado Garry first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com45–49
Unattributed46–49
Kendrick Johnson MMAWeekly.com46–49
CombatPress.com46–49
Unattributed47–48
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com47–48
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com47–48
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com47–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com47–48
Andy Stevenson SevereMMA.com47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
Unattributed47–48
Unattributed47–48
Unattributed47–48
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Unattributed47–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com47–48
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Makhachev · 60%49-46 Makhachev · 18%48-47 Garry · 13%49-45 Makhachev · 3%48-46 Makhachev · 2%

994 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Ian Machado Garry

0.92takedowns / 15 min
0.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.10 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.54 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
56%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Islam Makhachev

3.10takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Ian Machado GarryIslam MakhachevPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Ian Machado Garry vs Islam Makhachev — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Ian Machado Garry and Islam Makhachev from Aug 07 to Aug 15, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Ian Machado Garry moves from 26% to 26% and Islam Makhachev from 74% to 74%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%Aug 7Aug 9Aug 11Aug 13Aug 15▲ we flagged Islam Makhachev (HIGH) here26%74%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Islam Makhachev's implied chance moved down from 74% to 74% (−1.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Islam Makhachev at 68.2%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 73.5% — our number sat 5.3pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Ian Machado Garry — sportsbook consensus23.8%21.9%26.2%26.2%+2.5pp
Islam Makhachev — sportsbook consensus76.2%73.8%78.1%73.8%−2.5pp
Ian Machado Garry — Polymarket25.5%23.5%26.5%26.5%+1.0pp
Islam Makhachev — Polymarket74.5%73.5%76.5%73.5%−1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,531 snapshots on file · window Aug 07 03:12Aug 15 22:30Z · last capture Aug 15, 22:30Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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